Improvement in safety apparatus for lamps



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Safety Apparatus for Lamps.

Patented Jan. 21, 1873.

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CLARK J. BROWN, OF PLYMOUTH, NEW HAMPSHIRE.

IMPROVEMENT IN SAFETY APPARATUS FOR LAMPS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 135,074, dated January21, 18? 3.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CLARK J. BROWN, of Plymouth, of the county ofGrafton and State of New Hampshire, have invented a new and usefulSafety Apparatus to be used in supplyfunnel provided with a bail, B,formed and having a hook, at, as shown, thebail being arranged on andpivoted to one side of the funnel, in manner as represented. Extendingthrough the funnel and above it and fastened to its inner surface is atube, 0, from whose upper end a flexible tube, D, is projected toanother tube, E, going axially through a cork or stopper, F, the tubes 0and E being inserted air-tight within the flexible tube D.

In using the apparatus the stopper or cork is to be inserted in themouth-piece b of the can G, the hook of the bail being extended into thenose 0, and the discharge-tube or educt d of the funnel being insertedin the fillingorifice of the lamp-reservoir.

The hooked bail serves as a rest to support and steady the can while itmay be in the act of being tipped for supplying the lamp with fluid. Italso enables a person to seeto advantage the fluid while flowing fromthe nose of the can. Furthermore, the tubes 0, D, and E not only admitair from the lamp into the can, in order that the fluid may freely flowfrom the latter, but with the cork they insu- Y late any combustiblevapor in the can from the flame of the lamp, and thereby preventaccidental explosion of such vapor.

I claim as my invention as follows, viz

l. The combination of the flexile tube D and the stationary tubes (3 Ewith the funnel A and cork or stopper F.

2. Also,the combination of the hooked bail B, or its equivalent, thefunnel A, the cork F, and the stationary and flexile tubes (3 D E,

all arranged substantially as and for use as

